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Doubleday's Dapper Leader

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Stephen Miller

February 8, 2012

John Sargent led Doubleday & Co. for two decades, helping create a self-styled "communications conglomerate" with its own printing presses, broadcasting and film units and a baseball team, the New York Mets.

Mr. Sargent, who died Sunday at age 87, was a dapper and powerful presence in book publishing and also sat on the board of the New York Public Library. In the 1970s he was often seen escorting Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whom he hired as a Doubleday editor.